Brazil has basically been under the same administration for almost a decade and a half, and while knee deep in shit creek without a paddle, someone thought it would be best to go snorkeling instead. Our latest president was impeached (making it the second impeachment we had in a little under three decades), her predecessor was found guilty in a bunch of administrative malpractice suits (and his party is insisting on putting him up as a candidate for this year's election - straight from jail). There are no big names running (before anyone asks, no, I wasn't allowed to campaign).

So in comes this guy, has been the center of attention from everyone in the last year and a half or so. Says he's going to make it easier for everyone to get a gun, promises to crack down on crime hard. Dude is former military (we had a military dictatorship period from 1964-1985 or so), claims that the best place for any criminal is six feet under. He has a big mouth on him, sure - lots of people draw parallels between him and Trump, mostly on account of their speeches being so inflammatory (he doesn't care for gays, women or what he calls "the left wing's agenda"). Guy's name is Bolsonaro.

He was stabbed yesterday, allegedly by some left-wing conspiracy theorist nut. There is still a debate going on over how much of that is true since video clips at the moment of the attack show no immediate blood loss (though ME reports say he's lost a shitton of blood internally, plus had his guts lacerated in like three different spots and will have to shit through a bag for a month or so).

Figured I'd post something about it, ask you guys what you think or what you've heard about it if anything.

Nor military interventions into government. However, If this particular candidate runs legally and governs legally AND leaves legally (the tricky part) ... he could maybe sorta possibly hopefully? be rememberedsay like the USA's Ulysses S Grant or Dwight Eisenhower.

He'll be up against Fernando Haddad of the Worker's Party, the party of previous president Lula. The results were 46% to 29%, so either we will see a Le Pen moment where in the second round all voters unite behind the counter candidate to prevent a far right president - but the opposite might also easily happen, as Bolsonaro is just 5% short of the total majority.

He'll be up against Fernando Haddad of the Worker's Party, the party of previous president Lula. The results were 46% to 29%, so either we will see a Le Pen moment where in the second round all voters unite behind the counter candidate to prevent a far right president - but the opposite might also easily happen, as Bolsonaro is just 5% short of the total majority.

I think we may be headed towards a dictatorship either way.

The Worker's Party (PT for short here) has been in power for years and there's massive talk about ballot tampering (around here we use an electronic system. Results come in real fast, but it does not allow for a recount, and those devices didn't make it through a world-renowned hacker convention last year in an under 24h test). Bolsonaro has already stated he will not take a defeat lying down. If he wins, we can expect anything from strikes to riots in the streets, giving him the perfect excuse to lay some martial law. If he doesn't, he will likely claim the ballots have been tampered with and do it anyway.

I see a lot of people voting for Haddad out of fear for what may happen if Bolsonaro wins. But the thing is - nothing they fear would happen actually REQUIRES him to be president. He's got the connections to start a coup of his own regardless. What people need here is a scarecrow. With Lula arrested, suddenly they seem to have forgotten his whole goddamn party was in on some of the biggest corruption scams in Brazillian history. And that was like two, three years ago. They hate the guy so much they completely forgot they had the hots for ousting our current, finishing-his-term prez two months ago.

TBH i just wished someone would get all our politicians inside Maracanã and give them all a sword and shield and let them have it and make last man standing president.

It doesn't matter anyway, it'd just be more entertaining that way i suppose.

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